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State Farm started sponsoring League of Legends tournaments in 2018.

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Riot Games and State Farm extend League of Legends esports pact to 2021

Posted byby Giancarlo Valdes
May 21, 2019
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League of Legends has a history of attracting huge companies outside gaming to sponsor its esports tournaments. And today, developer Riot Games announced that...

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Gameloft is launching its first esports tournament with Asphalt.

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Gameloft’s Asphalt mobile racer gets its first esports tournament

Posted byby Giancarlo Valdes
May 16, 2019
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Mobile developer Gameloft is ready to take its long-running racing franchise to esports. Today, the company announced that it’s hosting the first edition of...

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You can win a discount on a Nascar race ticket with Winfinite's deal with 704Games.

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iBuypower and Toyota will train pro NASCAR drivers on simulated race tracks

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
May 15, 2019
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iBuypower and Toyota Racing Development are creating a training center where professional NASCAR drivers can train on simulated race tracks. iBuypower will provide the...

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Super League Gaming triples its esports movie theater presence with NetLevel

Posted byby Giancarlo Valdes
May 8, 2019
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Super League Gaming’s attempt to make esports tournaments more accessible for fans and players got a big boost today. The company announced that it’s...

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Chris Taylor (left) tells GamesBeat's Dean Takahashi about his new cloud gaming platform, Kanoogi.

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GamesBeat Summit: Watch all the Day 2 talks

Posted byby Jason Wilson
May 2, 2019
2 min

Our GamesBeat Summit 2019 is over, but that doesn’t mean we can’t go back to the lessons we learned — or heed them for...

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Esports organization Gen.G gets $46 million in funding from Will Smith and Stanford

Posted byby Mike Minotti
April 17, 2019
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The esports organization Gen.G announced today it has a completed a $46 million funding round that includes actor Will Smith as an investor. Gen.G,...

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ESL and AT&T partner for new mobile esports league

Posted byby Mike Minotti
March 11, 2019
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ESL announced today that it is teaming up with AT&T to create the ESL Mobile Open, a new year-round mobile esports league. ESL is...

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Overwatch League Season 2 opening week viewership up 30%

Posted byby Mike Minotti
February 26, 2019
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Blizzard Entertainment announced today that Overwatch League’s second season reached 13 million people during its opening week. That number is up 30 percent from...